1 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:08,320 Hallelujah has called us out of darkness into this marvelous 2 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:12,560 light. The apostle said, set our feet 3 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:14,240 on that street, which is called straight. 4 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:16,960 He's established our goings, Amen. 5 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:20,400 And I'm glad that he has. Haven't, don't you, Amen. 6 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:23,040 So good. It's good to see Dennis tonight, 7 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:26,640 Amen. With us in church a long time 8 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:31,080 ago when teenagers and I remember those days. 9 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:33,200 And so we're glad to have you with us tonight, Dennis. 10 00:00:33,480 --> 00:00:37,760 He says that he watches online here and there and quite 11 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:39,600 regularly. And so nothing like being in 12 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:42,320 person, Amen, To have him here, Amen. 13 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,800 To be able to enjoy his company, Amen, tonight. 14 00:00:47,160 --> 00:00:48,920 And so we're appreciative of that. 15 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:52,720 And I also, it is good to see Sister Margaret here, Amen. 16 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:55,840 Being able to be here. God's touching her right now. 17 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:58,680 Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. 18 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,640 Oh, his spirit is real, real, real. 19 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:04,480 She knows that. He made a way for her. 20 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:09,840 Hallelujah, Jesus. Oh yes, she did. 21 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:15,840 Hallelujah, Jesus. Amen. 22 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:21,520 Hallelujah. Tell you what, when you can't 23 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:26,200 make it all the time and you show up, you going to squeeze 24 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:27,720 the sponge out while you're here? 25 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:37,400 You going to take advantage of every song? 26 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:49,280 Hallelujah, Jesus. Hallelujah, Amen. 27 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:53,480 He's a God that meets us in the middle of our our darkness, our 28 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:57,480 fear, our frustration. I'm going to turn to First 29 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:02,920 Chronicles, not Corinthians Chronicles, all right? 30 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:07,760 I know. So why can't we just have a 31 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:15,240 pastor who preaches always in the New Testament, Honestly, and 32 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:17,800 it is just what? I'm probably more of a Old 33 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:19,880 Testament preacher than I am even New Testament. 34 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:22,520 I don't know. I'd have to look at it and see 35 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:27,480 how plot it all to see how it comes, but I don't know. 36 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:31,520 There's more books in the Old Testament than there is the new. 37 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:35,240 And I'm still doing a lot of my Bible reading in the Old 38 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:40,240 Testament right now. So First Chronicles Chapter 9. 39 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:43,400 However, it's not part of the genealogies for like the first 40 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,680 fight. The 1st 9 chapters of First 41 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:49,840 Chronicles is like genealogies, but we're already out of it. 42 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:55,960 For my setting verse #26 my daughter was talking to the 43 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:57,040 other day. She was saying, I tell you what, 44 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:00,880 I was having a hard time with Bible reading their days, all 45 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:03,840 these genealogies, and I knew it was too early in the year or too 46 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:05,440 late in the year for her to still be in Genesis. 47 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:07,800 I said, let me guess. I said, you're probably 48 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,600 somewhere in First Chronicles for chapters one through 9. 49 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:11,720 So I'm not sure. I'm not sure. 50 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:13,920 She looked it up. That's where she was. 51 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:16,600 That's where she was. Amen. 52 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:22,800 Verse #26 The Bible states these words for these Levites. 53 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:27,480 The four chief porters were in their set office and we're over 54 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:31,960 the chambers and treasuries of the House of God. 55 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:37,120 And they lodged around about the House of God because the charge 56 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:42,280 was upon them and the opening thereof every morning pertained 57 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:44,920 to them. And certain of them had the 58 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:49,240 charge of the ministering vessels that they should bring 59 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:53,240 them in and out by tail. They would count them. 60 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:56,880 They'd count and make sure the, the the inventory was right. 61 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:01,440 Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels and all 62 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:05,800 the instruments of the sanctuary and the fine flour and the wine 63 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:09,000 and the oil and the frankincense and the spices. 64 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,160 Everybody say the spices, and some of the sons of the priests 65 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:18,160 made the ointment of the spices. Everybody say the spices for a 66 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:20,720 little while tonight, I want to simply minister this. 67 00:04:21,079 --> 00:04:24,440 The fragrance of faithful service. 68 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:31,240 The fragrance of faithful service. 69 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:34,040 Amen. Let's ask God to help us here 70 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:37,560 for the next little while. Lord, I thank you today, God, 71 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:41,520 that these doors are open that allow us to walk into this place 72 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:45,840 and sing song heavenward, hear the word of the Lord, and God 73 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:48,200 once again center our lives around it. 74 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:51,000 God, I pray, Lord, touch each and every individual in this 75 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,800 place tonight. The body of Christ, Lord, the 76 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:57,680 members in particular, I pray, O Lord, that make up this thing 77 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:00,400 called the church. God will thank you and praise 78 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:02,680 you, Lord, for what you're capable, Lord, of doing in this 79 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:05,480 house this evening. God will not fail to thank you 80 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:07,840 for it. In the name of Jesus Christ that 81 00:05:07,840 --> 00:05:12,000 I pray Hallelujah in the church, say Amen, Amen. 82 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:13,760 You may be seated tonight in Jesus. 83 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:16,800 Thank the fragrance of faithful service. 84 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:22,120 There is something called today and it occurs quite often in 85 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,880 nature. And nature is probably where we 86 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:28,040 find some of the greatest examples of this. 87 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:31,880 And that is it's what's called a mutual symbiotic relationship. 88 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:34,920 And I'm not trying to get all technical upon you, but in a 89 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:38,400 mutual symbiotic relationship, it it happens whenever there are 90 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:43,440 two species that rely on each other in such a way that it 91 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:47,800 allows both of them to flourish. They both benefit from the 92 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:51,120 relationship. There's a interdependence that 93 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:54,400 happens one upon the other in this sort of relationship. 94 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:58,240 As a matter of fact, it is in my estimation exactly how God 95 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:02,440 designed His church in a mutual symbiotic relationship. 96 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:06,960 We often times see these type of relationships in nature. 97 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:11,240 Again, the relationships that bees have with flowers, the 98 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:15,640 relationships that even clown fish have with sea and enemies. 99 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:18,560 The relationship. I never even heard of this till 100 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:22,760 I looked it up but ox pecker bird have with large mammals 101 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:27,320 like like rhinos and Buffalo they they all demonstrate a 102 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:31,400 mutual symbiotic relationship. What I mean by that is this when 103 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:35,000 we consider bees and flowers, it's the bees that go to the 104 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,800 flowers and they get nectar then for food. 105 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,800 But also as a result of them doing that flowers get 106 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:44,760 pollinated enabling them to reproduce. 107 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:48,360 And so they are both interdependent on each other and 108 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:51,920 they have a benefit that's derived from this relationship 109 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:55,840 that one has with another. Not only that, when if we look 110 00:06:55,840 --> 00:06:58,920 at that, when they have these rows, if either one of them were 111 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:03,600 stop, were to stop in the row, then the life would stop for the 112 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:08,120 the bee and for the flower. In essence, the clown fish in 113 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:11,760 the relationship between a clown fish and a sea anemone. 114 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:16,440 Clown fish get protection from their predators by living among 115 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:20,240 the sea and enemies and their tentacles and such and sea and 116 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:22,960 enemies. They get cleaned and many times 117 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:27,480 receive food scraps from the clown fish as a result of them 118 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:30,440 living there. And so one's been given a safe 119 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:34,280 place, but the other then has a service to perform while they're 120 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:38,280 in that place of cleansing. So both of these again receive a 121 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:41,200 benefit by being a part of this relationship. 122 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,240 All pecker birds, I don't even know what they look like. 123 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:47,480 I should have looked that up. But all pecker birds, they eat 124 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:52,120 ticks isn't that scrumptious. And insects from the mammals 125 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:55,720 skin that they are usually hovering around or upon. 126 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:59,360 And so it's read all of this. The mammals get pest control 127 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:02,560 right in their life. And so there's this careful 128 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:06,360 harmony of a provision for one and then protection for the 129 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:09,680 other. And both are benefited in 130 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:12,560 Scripture. No doubt nature shows us this 131 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:14,960 truth, but we also see it in Scripture. 132 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:19,200 And there's another example that I read some time ago that maybe 133 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,280 it didn't say it was this, but I believe that fits concerning 134 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:24,880 this. Charles Spurgeon, years ago, he, 135 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:28,080 he told a, a story about some machinery. 136 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:31,720 He wasn't talking about biology, but a personal experience. 137 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:36,880 He said that he had, he had been going to from Perth, it was a 138 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:39,840 city to Edinburgh. And suddenly dead, the 139 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,600 locomotive that they were on the train that they were on came to 140 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:48,160 a dead stop because there was a very small screw in one of the 141 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:51,720 engines that had broke off. It had been broken. 142 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:56,160 And whenever they started to try to go again as a result of this 143 00:08:56,160 --> 00:09:00,400 broken screw, they went along at a very slow pace. 144 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:05,160 He almost described it as a crawl because all along all they 145 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:09,880 had was 1 piston rod that was working because the other screw 146 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:13,440 was broken for the other rod that should have had two and it 147 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:17,240 was only just a very small screw that was holding that together. 148 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:20,400 But since it was gone, they were at a crawl. 149 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:23,840 He says had it been right, the train would have just rushed 150 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:27,880 along the tracks just as normal. And this was his phrase. 151 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:32,040 He said the absence of that insignificant piece of iron 152 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:37,000 disarranged the hole, which I believe gives a lot of telling 153 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,480 to what Spurgeon was really saying here. 154 00:09:39,680 --> 00:09:42,760 He was saying it's just that insignificant screw, just a 155 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:46,040 small little screw. But the impact shows that it 156 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:50,280 wasn't really insignificant. It was significant because they 157 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:53,920 had to travel at a much, much lower pace. 158 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:58,600 And so he's emphasizing them the value of the screw because 159 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:01,600 without it, they couldn't go at regular speed. 160 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:04,200 Just just follow me here, just for a moment. 161 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:10,080 A small all screw could not serve its purpose, but if it was 162 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:15,200 missing, broken here, or even just lying on the tracks, it 163 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:19,480 showed us that its existence didn't matter because it was a 164 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:22,280 part of a functioning locomotive. 165 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:26,520 Without the locomotive, though, the screw would never move, 166 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:31,720 would never be involved in transporting passengers, and so 167 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:34,040 on. And so the screw had to stay 168 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:39,920 attached to its purpose, being a part of a operational 169 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:44,480 locomotive, and that allowed it then to contribute to something 170 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:50,240 that was greater than what it was by itself, it's value. 171 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:53,440 In essence, the screws value increased because it was 172 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:57,720 supporting a system that amplified it's impact of 173 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:01,760 contribution and service when it was made to be a part of this 174 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:04,720 locomotive. You remove the screw and the 175 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:09,640 locomotive slows to a crawl, but you remove the locomotive and 176 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:15,240 the screw loses its mission symbiotic relationship, one 177 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:18,800 benefiting both benefiting from being a part of this God in 178 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:21,960 Scripture has set up the body of Christ. 179 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:25,880 He has set up the church as a body ministry. 180 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:28,600 Amen. We all of us, no matter how 181 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:33,560 significant or how insignificant we feel and I underline that how 182 00:11:33,560 --> 00:11:38,000 we feel we have something to contribute to the body of 183 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,880 Christ. It's all in God's design Amen. 184 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:46,480 And there is no body or no part of the body that is optional. 185 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:50,680 The Bible says in the book of Corinthians 4, the body is not 186 00:11:50,680 --> 00:11:54,920 everybody say 1 is not one member, but many. 187 00:11:55,120 --> 00:12:00,200 He says in First Corinthians 12 and verse #20 But now are they 188 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:06,640 many members yet but one body and the I cannot say into the 189 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:12,480 hand, I have no need of thee, nor again the head to the feet I 190 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:16,840 have no need of you. Nay, much more, those members of 191 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:21,160 the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary. 192 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:25,720 In other words, the body cannot do without them. 193 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:30,440 Hey man, I've come to tell you the day that we need you, the 194 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:35,440 church needs you, the body of Christ needs you, and regardless 195 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:39,040 of how you feel or what your contribution would be or 196 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:42,760 wouldn't be in the church, Amen, You matter as a member to this 197 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:47,160 body called the body of Christ. You are important and there are 198 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:51,360 benefits on both side of this equation in what you get from 199 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:54,320 being a part of the body and what the body gets from you 200 00:12:54,320 --> 00:13:00,520 being a part of it, Amen. God organized and He designed 201 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:03,800 the human body with different members, these human bodies, 202 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:05,920 Amen. I'm glad that not every member 203 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:08,560 of my body is a pinky all right on the hand, right? 204 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:11,920 I'm glad that's not. But He has all these designs and 205 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:16,560 various functions of the members of our natural bodies who are in 206 00:13:16,560 --> 00:13:20,960 many regards interdependent upon each other, and we receive 207 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:23,600 benefit, Amen. Each piece does from the 208 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:27,680 different parts of this body and God has fashioned this body 209 00:13:27,680 --> 00:13:31,360 called his church just similarly, the Bible said that 210 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:36,160 God set the members, every one of them in the body as it hath 211 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:41,000 pleaseth, it pleaseth him. God has us where he would desire 212 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:44,840 us, he pleased to. It's pleased him to put us in 213 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:47,400 certain circumstances, ministries and service 214 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:50,040 opportunities within the body of Christ. 215 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:53,800 The Bible tells us in Romans, I believe it is, or maybe it was 216 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:58,080 Corinthians, that God hath tempered the body together. 217 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:01,040 God has done that. He has a purpose and a reason 218 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:03,800 for what he has done. He's tempered it, or He has 219 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:06,400 commingled it. He has mixed it. 220 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:09,640 He has united one thing to another thing. 221 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:14,760 The Bible says that his body is fitly joined together and 222 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:18,520 compacted. Hey, man, that which every joint 223 00:14:18,560 --> 00:14:22,640 supply of what that means is then when we come together, 224 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:26,360 there's something that you supply and I supply and Brother 225 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:30,520 Fred supply each one of us, each one are supplying something that 226 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:35,120 another member in the body needs that helps it grow, that helps 227 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:37,920 it flourish. Every joint, everybody say every 228 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:40,480 every joint someone say that's me. 229 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:45,960 Every joint supplieth and the Bible says in return maketh 230 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:50,960 increase of the body. Someone say man it doesn't 231 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:54,800 matter how you feel. Hey man, every member depends on 232 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:58,880 and didn't depends on and benefits from the whole. 233 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:04,560 But the whole the whole suffers if any part of it is missing. 234 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:07,960 The Bible says in first Peter 4 and verse 10. 235 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:11,920 This is the English standard version, but it says as each has 236 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:19,360 received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of 237 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:23,880 God's varied grace. In other words, being a good 238 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:27,760 steward of the unique gift that God has given you. 239 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:35,320 God has given you a unique gift, talent, ability, whatever it may 240 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:37,840 be. God's given you a particular 241 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:42,400 unique gift, but being a good steward of that gift is then 242 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:48,000 using that gift to serve one another in the body. 243 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:53,280 To not to not steward it, to not use it, to not utilize it would 244 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:58,080 be poor stewardship of us, of the gift that God has given us. 245 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:01,960 There is a parable, You'll remember it well in Matthew 25. 246 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:06,680 The parable is of the man who distributed his goods to three 247 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:11,120 people and he gave it essentially of of five talents 248 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:15,440 and two talents and one talent. And the Bible says that each one 249 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:18,840 received here a different portion of the masters goods. 250 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:24,120 But the Bible says but the master gave in in Matthew 25 to 251 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:28,880 every man according to his several ability. 252 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:33,880 In other words, the master handed out the talents because 253 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:37,520 he already knew their ability. He handed out the talents 254 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:40,120 according to knowing their ability. 255 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:44,840 Can I tell you tonight that God knows what you personally are 256 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:48,560 capable of? God knows the certain giftings 257 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:52,480 and abilities and how He has ordered you and steered you and 258 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:54,880 your demeanor and your personality. 259 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:59,000 He understands all of that. But God has given you even a 260 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,240 gift and a talent, Amen. I know that was money, but I'm 261 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:04,440 talking about real talent and skill, Amen. 262 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:08,880 According, if you will, to your gifting, because He recognizes 263 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:12,680 your potential and what you could do with what He has given 264 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:16,000 you. I think I think that's important 265 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:20,400 to understand tonight. God knows what we can do, Amen, 266 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:24,920 with what he has given us. And each person tonight is 267 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:29,720 designed for service. Each person tonight, Amen, has 268 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:33,320 an ability. And if we steward that gift 269 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:38,920 wisely, if we serve one another wisely as a member of the body 270 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:42,520 of Christ, then your involvement, my involvement, 271 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:46,920 will help it grow and help. The Bible says the body to be 272 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:52,960 edified or built up when everybody is a part of this 273 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:57,880 thing called the body. I said all that to look at this 274 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:02,560 picture then in verse. Chronicles chapter #9 of this 275 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:06,280 temple service but just allow me a little bit of time in first 276 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:09,880 Chronicles 9, this is an important chapter because this 277 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:13,160 is a chapter of restoration. This is a chapter of 278 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:16,120 organization. The children of Israel, Judy and 279 00:18:16,120 --> 00:18:18,160 such have been taken away in Babylon. 280 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:22,400 They've been there for 70 years, but they are now allowed because 281 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:26,240 of the decree of the Persian king Cyrus, they are allowed to 282 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:30,200 come back home to Jerusalem. And so they are returning. 283 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:35,280 And as some of the people are returning, Chapter 9 begins to 284 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:39,240 list for us their resettlement, the resettlement of the 285 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:43,000 Israelites, if I can, the resettlement of the lay people 286 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,240 of the nation of Israel back into Jerusalem. 287 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:49,920 Not just the lay people, but the Bible says the Levites are 288 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:53,520 twinkling back in and home and that there are priests and 289 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:55,640 families that are twinkling back home. 290 00:18:55,880 --> 00:19:00,000 But not only are they returning to the land, but they are also 291 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:04,280 returning to the temple. And even more importantly, they 292 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:09,640 are returning to rows and functions, giftings, involvement 293 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:14,120 and abilities that they served him before they ever left and 294 00:19:14,120 --> 00:19:16,560 were just pushed out of Jerusalem. 295 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:21,200 The Bible says there in Chapter 9 that some of the Levites that 296 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:23,880 were there were porters or they were gatekeepers. 297 00:19:24,120 --> 00:19:27,760 The Bible says that they managed the treasuries that were in 298 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:31,280 rooms around about the House of God or the temple of God. 299 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:34,120 The Bible describes that they slept there. 300 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:37,320 Hey man, because it was their responsibility, brother Fred, 301 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:40,440 that in the morning they got up and they unlocked the temple for 302 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:44,040 people could have their ends and their outs among the temple. 303 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:47,480 And so they they slept there. Hey, man, and they opened open 304 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:50,720 that up for the general public and the Bible also says there 305 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:53,960 were others that were there other Levites that they kept 306 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:56,840 track of the inventory that were in the chambers. 307 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:00,520 They kept track of the the utensils even that were used for 308 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:02,920 worship. Again, it was almost like, you 309 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:06,680 know, dad, the old the old tool place there at PSI. 310 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:07,960 You have to go through get a tool. 311 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:09,840 You checked it out, you checked it in type thing. 312 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:12,000 They're they're they're accounting how many, you know 313 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,040 how many harps are being taken and and so on and so forth. 314 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:17,160 When they brought back, they want to make sure they had the. 315 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:20,240 Same tally and so they're keeping track of all the 316 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:23,560 utensils and worship they would count them in count them out 317 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:26,640 there were others that were there that were custodians, if 318 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:30,080 you will, of the materials that were brought to the House of God 319 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:33,920 all the flower and all the wine and all of the spices and all 320 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:37,080 the frankincense they they're going to keep track of all these 321 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:39,880 things. Verse 29 says, and some of them 322 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaking of the Levites also were appointed to oversee and I 323 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:46,200 had you say emphatically the spices. 324 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:50,040 But then in verse 30, the Bible says, and some of the sons of 325 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:53,080 the priest made the ointment of the spices. 326 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:56,200 There's some versions that says it was the sons of the priest. 327 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:57,680 There's some that say it was the priest. 328 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:01,520 The word for word translation says and from the priest mix the 329 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:03,800 incense. So nonetheless, if they were 330 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:06,600 sons of priests, of the priest themselves, a son of a priest is 331 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:08,800 eventually going to be a priest, all right. 332 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,160 And so nonetheless, he says that they mix the ointment now. 333 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:14,920 Now the word here for ointment, it's quite broad. 334 00:21:15,120 --> 00:21:18,320 It means anything that's compounded, anything that is 335 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:22,120 blended, Amen, compounded by a perfumer. 336 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:26,560 So what that means is this could refer to both the holy anointing 337 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:31,320 oil or the sweet incense that was used in the temple because 338 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:34,880 both of them required a perfumer in order to do it and they both 339 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:38,720 required spices. So am I doing OK? 340 00:21:39,360 --> 00:21:42,440 As a matter of fact, there's Jewish commentaries that lean 341 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:46,400 toward that the the ointment was the anointing oil, but they also 342 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:50,040 acknowledge that those spices, Brother Mason, were for incense. 343 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:54,440 Other commentaries of Jews say that the spices were for both 344 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:58,400 purposes, holy anointing oil and for the incense. 345 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:03,320 When we understand this, the holy anointing oil was used for 346 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:07,760 consecrating the priest. They were used for consecrating 347 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:11,080 all of the furnishings of the temple, the the the table of 348 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:14,360 shoe bread and then and the lavers where they wash every 349 00:22:14,360 --> 00:22:16,840 utensil and instrumentation of the Tabernacle. 350 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:19,920 It was all had to be anointed with the holy anointing oil. 351 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:23,400 It was for consecration, but the incense was used. 352 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:27,960 It was a mixture that they burn daily in the temple on the altar 353 00:22:28,120 --> 00:22:31,680 of incense. And so the Levites that were 354 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:35,400 some that kept the chambers where the spices were stored, 355 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:39,600 they were over the storage, they were managers of the storage, 356 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:44,080 and they would transport the spices within the House of God 357 00:22:44,120 --> 00:22:47,800 proper from place to place. But the priests, on the other 358 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:53,000 hand, dealt with the mixing or the compounding of the spices. 359 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,200 Only certain priests could perform this duty. 360 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:58,560 Not all priests could, but certain ones could. 361 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,960 And so we know who mixed, we know who mixed the spices, and 362 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,760 we know who had oversight of the storage. 363 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,120 But where did all the spices come from? 364 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:10,920 We read in the Tabernacle of Moses. 365 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:13,920 Whenever Moses served in the Tabernacle in the wilderness. 366 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:18,200 The Bible tells us that the spices came as a voluntary gift 367 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:22,160 from all of the people, all of the land of Israel, the nation 368 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,600 Israel, the lay people brought the spices. 369 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,600 So matter of fact, if you read the book of Nehemiah, it 370 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,200 overlaps this same scripture context. 371 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:35,680 And in that time frame, it says similar things as flour and oil, 372 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:39,040 and all these similar things were still being brought to the 373 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,840 chambers of the treasury of God's house. 374 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:47,680 So the ultimate flow, Amen, happened like this. 375 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:52,760 All of Israel brought the spices to the House of God. 376 00:23:53,880 --> 00:24:00,000 A select Levi crew would manage and steward everything in the 377 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:04,120 chambers and in the treasuries. These spices in the House of 378 00:24:04,120 --> 00:24:05,600 God. Amen. 379 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:11,840 But then it required the priest a selection of them to mix and 380 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:17,200 compound the spices for the holy oil and the holy incense. 381 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:19,160 What are you saying then, Brother McGee? 382 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:24,200 I'm saying it required all three of these to take something that 383 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:27,280 was common and turn it into something sacred. 384 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:31,120 It took all three of these relationships. 385 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:36,160 There could not be a priest mixing any spice if there wasn't 386 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:39,360 a layperson that brought spice to the House of God. 387 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,040 No, Levi could look over the storage and manage the 388 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:47,160 transportation within the House of God if a layperson didn't 389 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:50,040 bring spice for them to have any storage up. 390 00:24:56,120 --> 00:24:58,520 Amen. Nobody's going to benefit from 391 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,400 the sweet smell of the holy anointing oil. 392 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:04,360 Can I tell you there is no priest head that's going to be 393 00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:08,320 consecrated if someone didn't bring spice store spice and 394 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:10,760 mixed spice. There is no sweet fragrance 395 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:14,120 that's arising from the temple of God unless someone bring 396 00:25:14,120 --> 00:25:16,400 spice, store spice and mixed spice. 397 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:19,280 It took them all. Yet when it was all said and 398 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:22,800 done, the product of it would benefit the one who brought it, 399 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,360 benefit the one who managed it, and benefit the the one who 400 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:30,400 mixed it. Someone say Amen. 401 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:35,800 The people brought the Levites guarded it, but the priest mixed 402 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,280 it. And it doesn't matter how 403 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:40,400 skilled the priests are in mixing. 404 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,440 If the Levites weren't keeping track of the amount that's left 405 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:56,030 in the chambers, it was the priest responsibility to turn 406 00:25:56,030 --> 00:26:00,160 mere spices and to a sacred concoction because you read a 407 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:02,640 scripture. No one else were to make the 408 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:07,520 holy anointing oil like they made it, and it was to be used 409 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:10,720 for no purpose except for what God described, for it to be used 410 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:14,960 for consecration of the House of God and the people and utensils 411 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:18,800 that work there in the incense. Likewise, no one was to make it 412 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:23,680 like they made it. Hey man, it's these things that 413 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:28,360 they would mix and then it was it was proper and usable for 414 00:26:28,360 --> 00:26:31,720 worship. It was proper and usable for the 415 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:35,240 House of God. Again, without them, those 416 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:39,560 spices are still going to have some type of a perfume or smell 417 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:43,960 from them, but they won't have the consecrated value unless 418 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:51,440 there's a priest to mix it. What you saying then, Pastor 419 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:54,160 Mickey? I'm saying this one persons work 420 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,160 is unfinished without the other persons work. 421 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:02,040 One persons work is unfinished without the other persons work. 422 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:06,440 The other persons work would be empty, Amen and impossible 423 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:11,160 without the other Amen. Spices would just remain spices 424 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:15,480 and unbeneficial to everyone. The fragrance of worship would 425 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:19,800 never rise and would never meet the need of the people if each 426 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,240 one of them did not play their part. 427 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:23,800 What are you saying tonight, Pastor? 428 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,800 I'm saying everybody has a part to play and everybody needs to 429 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:31,880 play the part that they have because everybody benefits from 430 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,960 you being a part of the body of Christ. 431 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:42,440 Everybody it doesn't it is not it's not big I and little you or 432 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,400 anything like that. Honey, if we have any portion 433 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:49,400 that is missing any portion, mixer, bringer, Garter, it 434 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,600 doesn't matter any portion missing and we don't have the 435 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,880 final product of what sacred used as worship. 436 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:03,000 So would say man, 1 is just as do you understand 1 is just as 437 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:07,000 necessary as the other. None of them could say we don't 438 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:11,320 need the bringers. No, they couldn't say well, we 439 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:16,160 don't need the mixers. No, we need them all because the 440 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:21,440 overall benefit of the spices was the finished product of the 441 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:27,080 holy anointing oil and the sweet incense that matter. 442 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:31,960 The whole benefit of the spices was magnified when it came to 443 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:35,640 full completion of what it was intended to be. 444 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,240 The impact of those spices, and we'll look at here in a little 445 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:43,160 bit, but the impact of those spices wouldn't just benefit 446 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:47,720 what's inside the temple, it would benefit what was outside 447 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:53,320 the temple. Sometimes I think we live our 448 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,280 lot in life and sometimes even our lot in the body of Christ. 449 00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:01,160 We may think that our reach and our influence are limited to the 450 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:06,280 four walls of the assembly, and I suppose they are to a certain 451 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,480 degree. But whenever I combine my 452 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:14,080 efforts with the efforts of somebody else that's aligned for 453 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:18,800 the purpose of God, when I align my my mixing ability with 454 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:23,080 brother, Brother Reese's bringing ability and we couple 455 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,320 that with, with Sister Abby's storing and guarding the spice 456 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:31,000 inventory ability, it it amplifies, if you will, it's 457 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,840 reach and it amplifies its impact and it amplifies its 458 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,800 influence. The implications of it are wider 459 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:43,880 when we're all involved. So you have spices that are 460 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:47,000 brought, managed, mixed, they become holy anointing oil. 461 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:51,120 That's going to be oil up on the brow of every consecrated priest 462 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:55,880 that serves among the Tabernacle. 463 00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,840 The furnishings likewise that are used there, it's going to be 464 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:01,880 anointing. All the utensils, it's going to 465 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:05,920 be anointed. Do you understand, particularly 466 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:09,960 Old Testament, that without the priests, without the 467 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:14,000 furnishings, without the utensils, it didn't matter The 468 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,480 sacrifices of sin offerings, trespass offerings, peace 469 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,680 offerings, ho burnt offerings, whatever they were, surrender 470 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:22,960 offerings, you might call them ho burnt offerings that they 471 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:27,800 brought If there wasn't a sanctified priest or a 472 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:33,240 sanctified altar or sanctified tongs for the altar, bring all 473 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:39,040 the sacrifice you want. But it was basically useless 474 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:44,760 because they required sanctified utensils and a sanctified priest 475 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:48,440 in order for anything to happen. And not only did they need that, 476 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:50,760 all those things to be sanctified, we got to back the 477 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:52,520 truck up. We then understand the 478 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:56,680 sanctification then comes from a mixer, a Garter and a bringer, 479 00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,560 the people, the Levites, and the priest. 480 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:03,560 The entire worship system in the Old Testament of the nation of 481 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:07,520 Israel would come to a halt if anyone part was not involved. 482 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,320 Amen. Come to a screeching halt. 483 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,920 So what happened in around the temple, it directly correlated 484 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:23,640 to each one's involvement in bringing, managing, so and so 485 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,040 forth. And they would all reap a 486 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,280 similar benefit. The Bible says in Psalms 141 and 487 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:31,280 verse 2. And there's also another 488 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:34,160 relation of that scripture of Revelation chapter 5 and eight. 489 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:39,080 It pictures the incense of that day as the prayers of the Saints 490 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:44,320 had a unifying effect, unifying effect not only in its final 491 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:48,480 form of being incense, but also in the process of offering it. 492 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:53,600 We read in the book of Luke, Luke chapter #1 I believe it is 493 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,760 the Bible speaks of Zacharias and Elizabeth. 494 00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:00,760 Amen. Zacharias, he was doing his lot 495 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,920 of serving in the temple and his lot was to burn incense. 496 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:10,000 The Bible says, Amen, that Elizabeth has no child, but he 497 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:14,320 goes in to burn the incense. And the Bible says as he burns 498 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:19,800 that incense that all the people were offering their prayers as 499 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,440 he was burning the incense. As he's doing that on the 500 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:26,360 inside, all the people are offering their prayers on the 501 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,640 outside, Amen. At the same time, what are you 502 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,800 saying? It's a body ministry? 503 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,800 Because Zechariah at that moment would have no incense to offer. 504 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,520 Someone didn't bring it, someone hadn't managed it, somebody 505 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:42,840 hadn't mixed it. But because they did, as he's in 506 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:45,360 there offering, people are out there praying. 507 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:49,440 And there's a unification of the body not just in the process, 508 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:54,760 but also in the final practice of what's taking place. 509 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,720 Now. Listen, this, this is amazing to 510 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,360 me. You want to talk about. 511 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:05,760 And that's great. Incense oil, oil for, for, for 512 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:07,640 utensils and, and priests and all that. 513 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,000 That's great. That impacts the Tabernacle. 514 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,960 That impacts what takes place around the Tabernacle, That 515 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,560 impacts what can take place around the Tabernacle. 516 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,240 That's great. But when we talk about those 517 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:24,760 spices being made into that incense, it had a far reaching 518 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,760 impact. Blows my mind. 519 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:34,880 But Jewish sources say that the temple incense could be smelled 520 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:43,880 as far away as Jericho from Jerusalem, about 15 to 18 miles. 521 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:54,160 The Talmud, Jewish writing says, records that goats that were in 522 00:33:54,160 --> 00:34:01,600 Jericho, they said, would sneeze because of the potency of the 523 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:07,600 incense in Jericho. They said that women that were 524 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:13,480 in Jericho did not need to perfume themselves because of 525 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:19,159 the fragrance that came from the incense at the temple was so 526 00:34:19,159 --> 00:34:26,280 laden with aroma. 15 to 18 miles away. 527 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:29,120 Women says I don't worry about eating fragrance. 528 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:32,840 There's enough fragrance coming from the temple that it's got me 529 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,440 covered. They said. 530 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,440 I'm not. I'm not telling you what I came 531 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:38,360 up. I'm telling you what these 532 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,120 Jewish writers said. They said that a bride that 533 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,480 lived in Jerusalem, a bride it's going to be meeting her groom 534 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:48,360 that lived in Jerusalem, did not need to adorn herself with 535 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:53,440 perfumes because the temples aroma was sufficient for her 536 00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:59,680 wedding day. What are you saying, Pastor 537 00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:03,200 McGee? I'm saying when they bring it 538 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:08,640 and they manage it and they mix it and we get to the final 539 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:12,440 product because of the involvement of the bringer and 540 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:16,600 the involvement of the store and the involvement of the mixer, it 541 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:21,000 doesn't just impact the tempo and what we do around the tempo 542 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:26,400 or in the tempo, it's impact goes beyond the tempo as far and 543 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:33,280 wide as the aroma. It's the fragrance of faithful 544 00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:36,040 service. Whatever your portion is, 545 00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:40,240 whatever your light is, whatever your gift is, whatever your 546 00:35:40,240 --> 00:35:45,360 talent is, there's an aroma because you played a part in the 547 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:48,440 body. You played a part in the divine 548 00:35:48,440 --> 00:36:02,130 purpose of the. I'm telling you, I know as we 549 00:36:02,130 --> 00:36:06,360 get older, in a literal sense, we don't have the same abilities 550 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:09,280 that to be able to offer like we used to. 551 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,280 But I'm convinced this Dennis, that this woman right here was 552 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:16,840 crying and doing her clap a little bent over in her back 553 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:20,120 tonight, she says. I'm going to do my part. 554 00:36:21,240 --> 00:36:24,240 I'm going to do my part. Honey, I want you to know that 555 00:36:24,240 --> 00:36:28,280 was a cog in the machinery for bringing us to a incense to 556 00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:30,960 Aroma. What she was doing right there 557 00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:34,200 was causing waves to go miles from here. 558 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:38,760 Influence not just what goes on here, but what goes beyond here, 559 00:36:38,960 --> 00:37:02,550 because everybody has a part. My Lord Tracy, I hope your 560 00:37:02,550 --> 00:37:05,870 chicken start sneezing. I hope the horses, Glenna start 561 00:37:05,870 --> 00:37:08,310 sneezing there. Hey, man, there's aroma taking 562 00:37:08,310 --> 00:37:09,510 place. Something's happening. 563 00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,040 Hey, man, listen, we need to impact. 564 00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,280 We need something that's produced in the church that 565 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,080 doesn't just impact the church. We need something produced 566 00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:19,560 around the church that impacts beyond the church. 567 00:37:19,720 --> 00:37:22,720 We don't need to be satisfied with just oil that touches the 568 00:37:22,720 --> 00:37:25,600 brow of our priests or our Ultra's, our utensils. 569 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,520 It needs to go beyond. It needs to have the impact on 570 00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:30,920 somebody for them to stay. Hey, wait a minute. 571 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,760 What's that smell? What's that smell? 572 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:39,360 Until they follow it to its source, it's faithful service, 573 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:58,240 the fragrance of people service. Do it, do it, do it. 574 00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:02,040 If it's cleaning a Pew, if it's cleaning the toilet, if it's 575 00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:05,400 more on the line, if it's showing up for outreach, if it's 576 00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:10,200 playing a song, singing a song, teaching a class, getting water, 577 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,720 scrubbing the wall. Whatever it is, don't let your 578 00:38:13,720 --> 00:38:15,560 part not be a part. You 579 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:29,600 understand with me, I'm gonna hold you much longer. 580 00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:46,910 Sure. Everybody benefits when you play 581 00:38:47,750 --> 00:38:56,030 your part. I think sometimes we're the 582 00:38:56,030 --> 00:38:57,870 Fred. It might just be getting pigeon 583 00:38:57,870 --> 00:39:02,110 holed in our part. I'm getting I'm getting tired of 584 00:39:02,110 --> 00:39:03,670 packing these spices to the temple. 585 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,040 That's all I ever do, pack spices to the temple. 586 00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:11,920 The manager is like, I'm tired of waiting this stuff out, 587 00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:13,880 seeing how much we still got in these chamber rooms. 588 00:39:14,720 --> 00:39:17,600 I'm tired of taking them from the storage house to over here 589 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,200 to the priest. And he does a little mixed deal. 590 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:24,400 You know, there's a priest. Oh, Major, now just enough. 591 00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,080 Oh, can't get too much. And he's like, I'm getting tired 592 00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:28,200 of doing this mixing job. Come on. 593 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:35,280 Yeah, but we got to get outside of just the individual picture 594 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:48,480 and capture the big panorama. You know, whenever you get the 595 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:57,920 big picture, then you're not just bringing spices, you're 596 00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:00,920 helping consecrate everything. The temple. 597 00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:07,600 You're not just managing the storehouse, you're causing a way 598 00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,520 for the aroma that what takes place at the temple to reach the 599 00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:13,440 far outer places with that type of mentality. 600 00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:21,120 And I start doing that, it's not just what's affecting me, but 601 00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:26,160 what I'm doing is going to affect somebody else. 602 00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:32,680 So they're not just going back to a land here. 603 00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:36,760 Look, they've been gone for 70 years, but they're not just 604 00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:38,240 going back to a land or a church. 605 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,440 They're going back to Rosen functions in the church. 606 00:40:51,830 --> 00:40:53,870 Without the people, there was no spices. 607 00:40:54,870 --> 00:40:56,950 At the Levites, there was no stewardship. 608 00:40:57,950 --> 00:41:01,310 Without the priest there was no transformation of the common 609 00:41:01,790 --> 00:41:06,560 into the sacred. It only became that again. 610 00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:08,520 And you say we kick in a dead horse, So let me kick it. 611 00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:15,160 Sorry for those whom horses. It became consecrated because 612 00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:21,200 every part did it's work. And the impact went beyond the 613 00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:27,960 temple, carried on for miles, touching lives far removed from 614 00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:32,280 the temple. Folks, this is how God has 615 00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:36,720 designed his church. This is how God has defined his 616 00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,760 body. We're not just a collection of 617 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:45,080 isolated parts. It is a living, breathing, 618 00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:51,560 interdependent Organism. Regardless of how we may feel 619 00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:54,480 sometimes, because I understand sometimes we feel like the screw 620 00:41:55,320 --> 00:42:01,360 right we found like we feel like the one that's counting spices. 621 00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:06,640 But whatever your mode of operation is, you are 622 00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:10,640 indispensable to the mission of God. 623 00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:17,680 When we give our part, the body grows. 624 00:42:17,720 --> 00:42:21,520 There's increase quality, quantity. 625 00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:28,400 The world is impacted because the fragrance of what you 626 00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:35,960 regularly experience here now goes beyond here and it goes 627 00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:39,320 beyond. I don't know, Evidently not. 628 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:44,000 The spices were in the storehouse, but evidently just 629 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,200 there being spices in the storehouse wasn't the same 630 00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:52,440 impact as spices being ground down by a priest and mixed and 631 00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:55,240 concocted. That's where the Reach came in. 632 00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:01,760 We need every part. It would be a tragedy to be able 633 00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:03,960 to boast how much spices we had in the temple. 634 00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:12,680 But there's not a mixer. We just got a tally of what's in 635 00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:17,000 the storehouse. So what you saying, pastor? 636 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:22,040 I'm saying every joint supply. Bring your spice, steward your 637 00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:26,720 portion, mix what you got to mix because your faithfulness, it's 638 00:43:26,720 --> 00:43:30,960 going to release a fragrance, A fragrance that doesn't just 639 00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:35,200 bless this house, but a fragrance that even goes beyond 640 00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:40,800 the walls of this house. It's the fragrance of faithful 641 00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:44,640 service. I'm opening this altar tonight 642 00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:48,080 for every individual. You said pastor, already serve 643 00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:50,760 in a capacity or part of the body, or you might be someone 644 00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:53,040 else, say pastor. I've never given myself to that 645 00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:56,000 because I don't feel worthy of it and I feel insignificant. 646 00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:59,400 Listen, God's church, God's body needs you. 647 00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:02,920 You have some type of unique gift. 648 00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:06,840 He's made you a steward over something that may be particular 649 00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:10,440 to you, some type of predisposition that you have 650 00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:14,400 that when you use it to serve one another, there is 651 00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:16,240 edification. There's a building up, there's a 652 00:44:16,240 --> 00:44:19,360 growth, there's a making of increase of this thing called 653 00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:20,880 the church. And I'm not just talking about 654 00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:22,480 the local church. Yes, that happens, but I'm 655 00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:25,480 talking about the overall church all across this world. 656 00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:28,120 There's a making of increase and the edifying. 657 00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:33,080 So if you you got spices to bring tonight, bring them. 658 00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:37,320 If you're tallying things, tally them if you're mixing things and 659 00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:39,680 mix them because we want to get this thing. 660 00:44:39,720 --> 00:44:42,680 We want to get this thing moved along the course to holy 661 00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:47,240 anointing oil and holy sweet incense because the impact will 662 00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:51,480 not just benefit us, but anybody that's within distance of us. 663 00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:55,120 You'll have an impact. You are important to the body of 664 00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:58,720 Christ, and your part is important to the body of Christ. 665 00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:01,520 Hallelujah. Can you just talk to the Lord 666 00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:04,760 right now? Oh, God, Oh God, I'm going to do 667 00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:07,680 my best. Lord, in spite of maybe how I 668 00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:11,000 feel about it, I'm going to contribute it. 669 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,520 I'm going to give it. I'm going to offer it because I 670 00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:17,960 know it's all a part of the process, Lord, to a practice, 671 00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:21,920 God, that has impact beyond my mind's imagination. 672 00:45:22,240 --> 00:45:25,400 Hallelujah. Come on, Sir, ma'am, you're 673 00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:27,920 important to the Kingdom. Hallelujah. 674 00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:31,600 You're important to the Kingdom. It's more than God just saving 675 00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:34,800 you and coming to the church and just being a part of the 676 00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:37,280 service. No, you have something to offer. 677 00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:40,800 You have something to give, you have something to contribute, 678 00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:44,200 and it's amplified whenever you mesh it together with everything 679 00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:45,800 else that other people have contributed. 680 00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:51,160 The body is benefited by it. People beyond the church is 681 00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:56,640 benefited by your involvement. Hallelujah, Let's talk to the 682 00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:57,760 Lord right now.